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Midnight Rendezvous

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As he walked through his front door; suit jacket over his shoulder, tie and collar undone, and a cigarette dangling from his mouth, he knew someone else was in the room. “You might as well come out, I know you are there.” And to his surprise they showed themselves. “Well this is a shocker…” and not just because they showed themselves, but because it was a young woman. At around 5’6”, an accentuating red dress on, dirty blond hair, and blues eyes like an ocean you could get lost in he couldn’t believe she was the one.
“What gave me away?” she said with a gentle smile on her face. “The carpet was wet and it stopped raining at least 45 minutes ago.” so she had been there a while. “Oh, I was so worried about myself I must have forgotten. I guess you can’t always be perfect can you.” “No, I guess no one can…” he said as he took a long drag off his cigarette. “Care for a drink?” “I don’t drink.” “Well, I’m gonna have a bourbon.” And as prepared his drink he glanced at her, just imagining what she must be thinking.
“I never expected a …” “A woman!” “Someone so young, how old are you anyway?” “18, but I’ll be 19 in a couple months.” Not even 21, as the situation became more and more astounding he realized it did not really matter. He decided to fill the silence with the last record he had on his player, which happened to be an old single.
“Care to dance?” He said as he put his cigarette in a tray and chugged his bourbon. “I’d be delighted.” She said with that same comforting smile on her face. Head on his chest listening to his surprisingly steady heartbeat she said, “This song is really sad.” “I can change it if you like?” “No, it’s alright, I like stuff like this sometimes. Who sings it?” “It’s an old standard sung by Jo Stafford called ‘Smoking my Sad Cigarette’.” Sniffing her hair as they danced in the moonlight coming through the window, he decided to take a chance. “Would you do me one last kind favor before you kill me?” Curiosity flashed across her eyes as she thought about it, then she said.
“Sure, anything you want.” “Well, I wondered if you do me the great honor of being my last kiss.” The briefest moment of sadness flashed across her eyes before she said, “Sure, if that’s really what you want.” “I could think of no finer way to go out of this world then with a kiss from a beautiful woman.” So with smiles they, at first very meekly, kissed. Flashes of all the women he ever kissed racing through his mind. Her only thoughts were that this was her first kiss and how nice it was to kiss. They parted lips and he smiled at her. Then he pulled back, put his chin up, and closed his eyes. *click*
This is a scene that was playing in my head for most of the afternoon today so I decided to put it down into words. I believe it is strongly inspired by a scene from the anime Madlax. I could be mistaken though because it has been a while since I have seen it. At a single word over 500 it's defiantly not the longest thing I've ever written. But it sure isn't short either, I hope you read and enjoyed it anyway. Anything you wish to say about this piece at all is truly welcomed since I normally don't put my scenes I work out in my head on here I thought I'd try a little something different.

ps. sorry if you think it's category is wrong, don't really know what to put it under
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